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1740
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1740 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1740
MDCCXL |
| Ab urbe condita |
2493 |
| Armenian calendar |
1189
ԹՎ ՌՃՁԹ |
| Chinese calendar |
4436 – 4437
己未 – 庚申 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1732 – 1733 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5500 – 5501 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1795 – 1796 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1662 – 1663 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4841 – 4842 |
| Iranian calendar |
1118 – 1119 |
| Islamic calendar |
1153 – 1154 |
1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year beginning on a Friday in the 18th century.
Events
- By the act of English parliament, alien immigrants (including Huguenots and Jews) in the colonies receive British nationality
- Enfield, North Carolina was founded
- Adam Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford
- George Whitefield founds the Bethesda Orphanage
- The song "Rule Britannia" is first performed at Cliveden
- Hertford College, Oxford, founded for first time.
- University of Pennsylvania founded.
January
February
- February 20 - The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel Johnston.
March
April
May
- May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I.
June
July
August
- August 17 - Pope Benedict XIV succeeds Pope Clement XII as the 245th pope.
September
October
- October 9 - Dutch East India Company massacre leading of 5,000-10,000 chinese inhabitants victims fell in Batavia.[1]
- October 20 - Maria Theresia of Austria inherits the Habsburg hereditary dominions (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and present-day Belgium). However, her succession to the Holy Roman Empire is contested widely because she is a woman.
November
December
- December 16 - Friedrich II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia, starting the War of the Austrian Succession.
Births
Deaths
- January 5 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (born 1667)
- January 27 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (born 1692)
- February 6 - Pope Clement XII (born 1652)
- March 23 - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, swedish scientist and explorer (born 1660).
- April 23 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (born 1685)
- May 31 - King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (born 1688)
- June 1 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (born 1657)
- June 6 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony (born 1676)
- June 17 - William Wyndham, English politician (born 1687)
- October 5 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (born 1721)
- October 20 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1685)
- October 28 - Anna I of Russia (born 1693)
- December 20 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, British military officer and statesman (born 1675)
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